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2026 First-Class Forever Stamp,U.S. Coast Guard Academy
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2026 US Coast Guard Academy
- Commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Coast Guard Academy
- Pictures a cutter and modern training ship
Stamp Category: Commemorative
Value: 82¢, First Class Mail Rate
First Day of Issue: September 12, 2026
First Day City: New London, Connecticut
Quantity Issued: 12,000,000
Printed by: Banknote Corporation of America
Printing Method: Offset, Microtext, Flexographic
Format: Pane of 20
Why the stamp was issued: This stamp honors the 150th anniversary of the US Coast Guard Academy.
About the stamp design: The stamp features photographs of the USCGC Bertholf, the Coast Guard’s first national security cutter, and the USCGC Eagle, a modern training ship.
First Day City: The First Day of Issue ceremony took place at the US Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut.
History the stamp represents: Nine cadets. One schooner. A voyage that launched an institution. In 1877, nine young men climbed aboard the topsail schooner Dobbin and set sail from Baltimore, Maryland. They were the first class of the Revenue Cutter School of Instruction, founded a year earlier in 1876. There was no campus. The ship was the classroom.
In 1878, a new training vessel, the cutter Salmon P. Chase, replaced the aging Dobbin. The school moved ashore in 1900. In 1915, it took a new name: the United States Coast Guard Academy. The Academy found its permanent home in 1932, on the banks of the Thames River in New London, Connecticut. Today it remains the smallest of the nation’s five federal service academies. Unlike the others, admission is based on merit alone, with no congressional nomination required.
Cadets still train at sea, aboard the barque Eagle, a three-masted ship taken as a war prize from Germany in 1945. Each year, roughly 250 cadets graduate and commission as Coast Guard ensigns, carrying forward the Academy’s motto: Scientiæ Cedit Mare (The sea yields to knowledge).
In 2026, the US Postal Service issued a stamp marking the Academy’s 150th anniversary, honoring a century and a half of training officers for one of the nation’s oldest continuous services.
2026 US Coast Guard Academy
- Commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Coast Guard Academy
- Pictures a cutter and modern training ship
Stamp Category: Commemorative
Value: 82¢, First Class Mail Rate
First Day of Issue: September 12, 2026
First Day City: New London, Connecticut
Quantity Issued: 12,000,000
Printed by: Banknote Corporation of America
Printing Method: Offset, Microtext, Flexographic
Format: Pane of 20
Why the stamp was issued: This stamp honors the 150th anniversary of the US Coast Guard Academy.
About the stamp design: The stamp features photographs of the USCGC Bertholf, the Coast Guard’s first national security cutter, and the USCGC Eagle, a modern training ship.
First Day City: The First Day of Issue ceremony took place at the US Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut.
History the stamp represents: Nine cadets. One schooner. A voyage that launched an institution. In 1877, nine young men climbed aboard the topsail schooner Dobbin and set sail from Baltimore, Maryland. They were the first class of the Revenue Cutter School of Instruction, founded a year earlier in 1876. There was no campus. The ship was the classroom.
In 1878, a new training vessel, the cutter Salmon P. Chase, replaced the aging Dobbin. The school moved ashore in 1900. In 1915, it took a new name: the United States Coast Guard Academy. The Academy found its permanent home in 1932, on the banks of the Thames River in New London, Connecticut. Today it remains the smallest of the nation’s five federal service academies. Unlike the others, admission is based on merit alone, with no congressional nomination required.
Cadets still train at sea, aboard the barque Eagle, a three-masted ship taken as a war prize from Germany in 1945. Each year, roughly 250 cadets graduate and commission as Coast Guard ensigns, carrying forward the Academy’s motto: Scientiæ Cedit Mare (The sea yields to knowledge).
In 2026, the US Postal Service issued a stamp marking the Academy’s 150th anniversary, honoring a century and a half of training officers for one of the nation’s oldest continuous services.
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